Prop 50 would let California’s Legislature control redistricting through 2030 before the independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission regains that authority.
The Trump administration has reached a deal with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to cut its drug prices, marking it the second drugmaker in as many weeks to agree to President Trump's demand for lower medicine prices.
It has become clear that our criminal justice system in many states has been broken by weak laws, weak prosecutors, and weak judges when it comes to violent criminals who have been adjudicated to be “insane.” Florida police recently arrested Ronald Exantus for a parole violation and failure to register as a convicted felon. In 2015, Exantus […]
Human Rights Watch said on Thursday it will not accept donations from comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. The human rights organization told Variety that it “cannot accept” donations from comedians like Aziz Ansari and others who performed. “But while we cannot accept, it is not too late for them...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced his engagement Tuesday, calling his fiancee “one of the greatest unearned blessings of my life.” The senior New Jersey senator, famously a lifelong bachelor, made the announcement in posts on his social media accounts. He said his fiancee, Alexis Lewis, has “transformed me, helping me to ground and center my...
🌌 Plus: Space Command HQ to move to Alabama {beacon} REP. THOMAS MASSIE (R-Ky.) filed a discharge petition Tuesday seeking to force the release of all government files pertaining to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, setting up a new confrontation with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Massie has teamed up with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)...
A federal judge ruled that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit accusing the e-commerce giant of imposing inflated fees on third-party sellers that have been passed along to consumers. U.S. District Judge John Chun allowed the lawsuit to move forward in an early August order, which was unsealed Friday. The certified class includes customers...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday warned GOP leaders that House Democrats will oppose any government spending bill negotiated by only Republicans. Behind Jeffries, House Democrats had voted almost unanimously in March against the Republicans’ 2025 spending extension, which had been crafted without input from Democratic appropriators. As Congress inches closer to a...
President Trump announced that Space Command will move to Alabama, after former President Biden halted efforts to move it from Colorado. Tuesday's Oval Office remarks marked Trump's first public appearance in a week. Meanwhile, the House and Senate are back in Washington after a monthlong August recess and are racing against the clock as the...
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton accused President Trump of trying to "manufacture a crisis" to justify an anti-crime takeover and immigration crackdown in Chicago, while the White House called the comments "despicable" and accused state and local leaders of letting crime continue to plague their cities.
Members of the House Republican Study Committee, fresh off August recess, will give remarks Tuesday afternoon on President Trump's police takeover of the nation's capital. Trump last month deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials to the district to patrol the streets and aid in his crackdown on crime. The president has floated...
Michael Froman, former U.S. trade representative and current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, has called for the abandonment of the rule-based international trading system overseen by the WTO. However, James Bacchus, a former member of Congress, argues that the multilateral trading system has been beneficial for the U.S. and other countries.
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell issued an apology for alleging the Minneapolis school shooter was a “MAGA person.” “I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect,” O’Donnell said in a video posted on Sunday. “I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak to the press Tuesday as lawmakers have just 14 days left until government funding lapses. Democrats face a critical choice of how much they want to work with their GOP colleagues to agree on a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open past the Sept. 30...
President Trump is set to make an announcement from the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. “The President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new location for Space Command, moving the agency's headquarters...
